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View synonyms for hear out

hear out

verb

  1. tr, adverb to listen in regard to every detail and give a proper or full hearing to


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Idioms and Phrases

Listen to someone's discourse until the end, allow someone to speak fully, as in Please hear me out before you jump to any conclusions . [First half of 1600s]

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Example Sentences

As I was auditioning, I could hear out in the audience, “Oh, wow… what am I seeing?”

There is only saying stuff the right wants to hear out of fear that they'll attack him.

Hence I took occasion to give him a full and particular account of all my adventures, which he had the patience to hear out.

And besides, his story was really so interesting, and she was so very anxious to hear out the rest of it to the very end.

Divo Pan is the divo who makes all the music that you hear out of doors,—the music of the wind and the water and the bird-songs.

So Dolly waited and in a few moments she could hear out in the hall much giggling and many footsteps.

What does he ever hear—out in camp so much—and when at home lounging in his long chair or shooting in the paddy fields?

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